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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

A Peek into My Creativity Zone



... Warning ... It's pretty messy!

This is the new ironing center that I picked up at Joann's a few weeks ago.  It's nice and big - but following the flat surface rule - it's starting to get piled up too. Do you know the flat surface rule?  Something about the project expanding to fill the surface area of the available space.  I have a lot of surfaces that are covered like that...
 See the calculator on the end of the ironing center?
 
Behind the center is a 4' x 4' design board covered with flannel, and test blocks of various shapes, and a multitude of other things.  Between the ironing center and the wall is a TV tray to catch the fabric from going on the dirty floor.  See all the clip-on lights hanging off the shelf?  The light in the room is behind me when I stand at the ironing board.  This illuminates my work surface, at least until I find an under-shelf light that works better.  I love the "daylight" CFL (Compact Fluorescent Light) bulbs I picked up from Walmart for $.88 for a set of 4! 
 
 

This is a project I'm working on.  I love my bins and containers!  The cardboard container on the left is from Hobby Lobby.  It's helping me corral the pieces until they are ready to go up on the design wall.  The little cup is an applesauce cup (that I washed) and now holds a few pins or whatever I need handy...

It's all sitting on top of my extension table next to my spare machine that I'm using for piecing while my lovely Elna is set up for FMQ. 






 
Here's another project I'm working on - it will be 1/4 square triangles, but first I need to mark them.  One of those projects for when I get 'a few spare minutes'... Yeah, right.  Hubby and I have a road trip coming up, so I thought I could do that while he's driving.



This is my cutting table.  It's one of those big drop-leaf jobs from many years ago.  There are little tubs and boxes all in and around the pile of 1 1/2" squares cut from scraps, 2 1/2" HST cut from scraps, Dresden plate blades to be sewn into Dresden plates, extra fabric for projects I'm working on, and well, just a pile of who knows what.  One of these days I'll get it cleared off





There are days when I wonder how the heck I even function in this clutter.  But I know, if I put everything away - I'll forget where I put it! :)

Until next time - Happy Quilting!